Chapter 27: Taming the Beast Within
Warning: vague descriptions of sexual activity in this chapter. Just a friendly heads up.
It had been a couple weeks after everyone found out that Mystique had met Gavin at a club and did something unknown to him. Now Rogue decided to ask Risty about what Mystique had told them: Mainly how the exchange student was her niece.
"Mind telling me why you decided to not tell us about you being Mystique's niece?" Rogue questioned with narrowed eyes.
"Mystique? You mean my aunt Raven?" Risty asked. "Well, it's mainly because you never asked." The girl shrugged.
Rogue stared at her before she facepalmed. "Ah should've seen that coming." She muttered.
"Why do you ask?" Her friend questioned.
"Ah… Ah have the sneaking suspicion that she may have... Violated Gavin." The southern belle said with a slight hiss.
"Oh…" The British girl replied with a concerned look. "I really hope that's not the case. Poor boy will fall apart if it is." She said, her features never losing their concerned look.
"Why do you say that?" Rogue asked.
"Because this isn't the first time Raven's done something like that." Risty sighed. Rogue looked at her in confusion.
'What in the world does that mean?' She wondered in her head.
"But let's not worry about it now. Besides, we have a geometry test tomorrow." The British girl said as they went to class.
(Elsewhere)
-Office of Emma Frost Psychiatrist PHD, Manhattan, New York-
Emma was currently sitting in her office going over some of her paperwork when she got a knock on her office door. "It's open!" The woman said as a woman walked in.
She was a woman with dark skin and hair and blue eyes. But as soon as she closed the door, she changed her appearance, showing that in actuality, she was Mystique.
"Raven? What are you doing here?" The telepath asked as she looked up.
"Emma, it has been a while hasn't it? If I remember correctly we hadn't really seen each other face to face since…" The shapeshifter said as she tried to think.
"The Cuban Missile Crisis. Yes, I'm aware." Emma finished with narrowed eyes. "What could you possibly need from me?" She questioned. "Don't tell me you and Azazel have gotten back together again? Last I remember you two ended up trying to kill each other after you found out he got you pregnant."
"Says the woman who used to work for Sebastian Shaw and the Hellfire club, honestly and you called that thing you wore an outfit? You looked like a done up whore." Mystique jabbed back at the former 'White Queen'.
"I don't appreciate you bringing up those short sighted fools. I left them for a reason: Shaw wanted to destroy mutants by making us seem like the enemy. And I could not stand by that." The woman sighed. "Now, I ask again, why are you here?"
"I'd like to ask a favor of you." The blue skinned woman stated.
"And what might that be?" The platinum blonde asked with a raised eyebrow.
"A recommendation to a good doctor, preferably one that gives accurate paternity tests." The shapeshifter stated clearly. Emma blinked in response.
"Why?" She asked in confusion.
"Well, it's a little embarrassing. You see I was at a club recently and I had a little too much to drink that night and the next thing I know I wake up in a hotel room, completely nude with a young man still inside me." The woman told the mutant psychologist. "And then a week later I found out I was pregnant."
"Surely you can't be serious." Emma said incredulously.
"Of course I'm serious, and don't call me Shirley." The shapeshifter told the blonde, causing her to facepalm. She had walked right into that one.
"Dammit." She cursed, causing the blue skinned shape shifter to laugh lightly in response.
"I'm sorry, but that was too tempting to pass up." She said, still laughing.
"Fine, I know a doctor who gives paternity tests with up to 98.9% accuracy. I'll send you a referral." The blonde sighed. "But in return, I suggest you allow me to see the results."
"Fair enough." The red haired shape shifter shrugged. "I will come back with them as soon as I have them." She said as she got up and turned to leave. "Goodbye Emma."
"Goodbye." Emma said as she left.
(Elsewhere)
Back in Bayville High, Gavin, Devin, Kurt and Evan were all in chemistry with their regular teacher, Hank McCoy, who they knew was also a mutant due to him knowing about them acting as a second doctor at the Institute. Currently they were all listening to an explanation about molecules and their stability.
Well, Kurt and Devin were, Evan was making a car out of erasers and tacks while Gavin was still bent over what happened between him and Mystique, it was honestly driving him insane.
'What the hell happened back there?' He wondered absently with a frown. 'Maybe I should ask the professor to see if he can help me remember.'
His thoughts were interrupted, however, when Evan's eraser car rolled off a ruler and knocked him in the head. The vampire fan yelped quietly before looking at the bone shooting mutant.
"Can you not do that again? Seriously, that ain't cool." He told him with a frown.
"Sorry." Evan said before he looked out the window, seeing his friends outside on their skateboards.
Gavin turned back to to the lesson at hand and tried to keep his mind off of what happened, he was trying so hard in fact that he hadn't noticed Evan leave and didn't snap out of it until Mr. McCoy stumbled onto one of the desks, clutching his head in pain. Gavin shook his head clear of any other thoughts before he looked at his teacher.
"Professor, are you okay?" He asked in concern, rushing up to him. "Come on, let's get you out of here before you break something. Devin, Kurt, come on!" He said before calling out to his brother and the teleporting mutant.
"Right/Got it." Devin and Kurt replied respectively.
The two boys led their teacher to the bathroom where he could try and calm himself by cooling himself down with some water, but they were soon startled as a sink from the bathroom crashed through the door, knocking it of its hinges and shattering against a row of lockers, which crumpled from the impact.
Hesitating, the three boys looked into the bathroom where their chemistry professor stood there, gripping his head as he gritted his teeth in pain like he was having a really bad migraine.
"This is not going to end well." Kurt noted nervously, the other two boys nodding their heads in agreement..
Suddenly, Hank charged at them prompting them to turn tail and run."
(Elsewhere)
-Bayville Park, later that day-
Evan was in the middle of the park when he suddenly heard Hank McCoy reciting Shakespeare in the old theatre. And when he went to investigate, he saw Kurt, and the Shirakumo Twins panting their lungs out behind a tree several yards away from it.
"What the heck happened to you three?" He asked.
"It's Mr. McCoy, he vent crazy during chemistry today." Kurt panted
"We followed him down here to help him clear his head, and he's been reciting Shakespeare for the past hour!" Gavin added.
"He just recited the Tempest, all five acts, from memory!" Devin gasped as he plopped on the ground in exhaustion.
"Yikes… I'm gonna check on him. Hopefully his head is clear enough by now for him to talk." Evan said hopefully before he made his way to the ampitheatre's stage. Once he got there, he saw that his chemistry teacher was leaning on the wall while reciting another passage from Shakespeare.
Though as soon as the spiked mutant tried to talk to the man, he was immediately cornered, the chemistry and PE teacher having a wild look in his eyes as his hands cracked the wall behind the boy.
"Whoa whoa whoa, teach! Calm down. It's me, it's Evan! Come on, don't you remember?" He asked, feeling more than a little intimidated.
The other three boys also tried to calm the man down, having just recovered from their exhaustion about two minutes or so before this occurred.. After a moment of their teacher struggling, he managed to get a grip on himself.
"Oh… I'm, sorry boys, I guess I lost my head for a moment there." Hank told them as he covered his eyes with one of his large hands.
"That would be an understatement." Gavin stated rather curtly.
"Should we take him to Prof X?" Evan asked.
"Yes. It would be wise for them to talk after this particular incident." Devin stated.
"Yeah, but for now…" Gavin nodded as the four boys supported the man and started to walk him to his house. "Come on Mr. McCoy, let's go ahead and get you home."
"Yes, thank you boys for your assistance." The chemistry teacher and PE coach replied gratefully as they helped him get home.
Later that day after the four had gotten their teacher home in his den to rest, they went to the Institute to tell the professor what happened, only for all four of them to remember that they had a danger room session starting in six minutes.
"Shittopia, we're gonna be late!" Gavin yelped as he checked his watch.
"If we don't get back soon, we are so gonna be in the dog house!" Evan added before he, Devin and Gavin turned to Kurt.
"Kurt!" All three of the boys yelled.
"Vay ahead of you!" The fuzz ball nodded as he teleported them to the Institute.
-At the Institute-
The four boys appeared in, oddly enough, Gavin's room. Before said boy could ask why, Kurt started talking.
"I'll drop each of you off in your rooms so we can speed this up!" He explained quickly before teleporting away with Devin and Evan. Gavin blinked before scrambling to get his uniform on.
In the danger room, the training session was about to start, which was being led by Storm and Chelsea, and the boys just barely arrived with mere seconds to spare.
"You're cutting it close today guys, care to explain why?" The blonde dragoness asked, crossing her arms and tapping her foot.
"Can we save the explanation for after this is over?" Devin asked.
"All I wanna say is that if I ever hear another Shakespeare line again, it'll be too soon." Gavin stated as he adjusted his plated arm guards. His statement made Chelsea and Ororo blink in confusion.
"Um… Huh?" Was all the fire breather of the Institute could say.
"Like Devin said, we'll explain once this session is over." Evan said as he adjusted his forearm guards.
With that, their training began. Which was basically a timed obstacle course where they had to get from one end to the other, and they were being attacked by Storm who was hurling metal balls at them, and Chelsea, who was breathing fire at them from above.
Devin turned his hands into hammers and whacked away a few of the metal balls away from him. Gavin, meanwhile, was using his smoke pseudo-telekinesis technique to control Bloodfallen and slice up balls that tried to hit the others and shoot any that got past him with Devil's Ruin and Devil's Scorn.
Evan was getting chased by Chelsea who was trying to breath fire at his skateboard's wheels, but was being held back by having to fly up in the air to avoid getting toothpicked. Kurt was leaping over and ducking under and spheres that came his way while teleporting out of the way of any he couldn't leap over or duck under in time.
When they were in the home stretch, everyone was watching each other's backs, but when Rogue got hit by one of the balls, Gavin dove in to save her and ran towards the platform which Kurt was keeping set for them, despite being under heavy dragon fire.
The pseudo vampire was carrying the auburn haired southern belle in a bridal style most of the way, right until he got hit in the back of the head with one of the balls. As he dropped to the ground. Rogue tumbled as well, and when he got up and shook his head, he got flashes, memories of what happened the night he was with Mystique. But he couldn't worry about that now, he had a job to do.
"Come on! Ve're running out of time!" Kurt called.
"I know!" Gavin called back as he picked Rogue up and continued his way to the platform. Luckily, Scott met them half way and took Rogue before the three managed to get on, ending the exercise with three seconds to spare.
As the simulation ended, Ororo and Chelsea walked up to them to tell them how they did on the exercise. The African weather witch was the one to go first.
"Well done everyone, Kurt, good show of restraint by not leaving until everyone was on board." Storm noted.
"Yeah, nice play of no one gets left behind blue, real good character there." Chelsea agreed before turning to Gavin who was rubbing the knot on the back of his skull that was still healing. "However, Gavin, I know you care a lot about Rogue but that doesn't mean you gotta be a white knight all the time. Keep this in mind: If you're always watching everyone else's backs, there's no one there to watch yours."
"Yeah… Yeah, sure." Gavin replied as he rubbed his head.
"Alright everyone, go ahead and get washed up." The silver haired woman told them.
(Later)
Gavin was walking to Xavier's office and had just knocked on the door. "Hey Prof, you there?" He asked.
"Yes Gavin, come in." The man's voice said. As the boy entered, he saw Mr. McCoy was there too.
"Oh, Mr. McCoy. How are you feeling?" Gavin asked.
"A bit better Gavin, thank you. I was actually just about to leave." The man said as he walked past him. Gavin stopped him quickly, though.
"Here." The boy said as he handed him a business card to Emma Frost's office. "If you still need to get your head together, I suggest going to this address. Ms. Frost is by far the best therapist I know, I mean, she's helped me control my powers." He said with confidence in said woman's abilities.
"Hm… I'll give it some thought." Hank said as he took the card and walked out.
Gavin then went and sat down with Xavier and then took a deep breath. "Hey, Prof? Mind if I ask a favor of you?" He asked the man.
"What is it you need, Gavin?" The headmaster of the Institute asked.
"I need you to go inside my head and rattle around any memories I have of that night with Mystique. The suspense is killing me, and I can't get my mind off of it. I need you to help me here." He told the telepath.
Xavier looked at him before thinking for a moment. He sighed when he was done.
"Very well, Gavin. But before I begin, I wish to warn you that what I find may be… Traumatizing… Are you sure you wish to know?" He asked warily.
"Prof, you're talking to a guy who has several aspects of his personality locked behind seals in his head. I think I can handle a few memories." The pseudo vampire stated confidently.
"The nature of the memories is what concerns me the most." Xavier replied.
"Have you met my level one personality? That part of me is the reason why I had to spend two years in porn rehab." Gavin retorted. "Trust me, whatever this looks like, I can take it."
Xavier sighed once more. "I hope that's true… For your sake." He said before gesturing for him to take a seat. Once Gavin was seated, he began to relax his mind so the aged telepath could do his work.
What was revealed was, simply put, the raunchiest scene that either had ever seen. To put it mildly, it put Stranger in a Strange land and Thirty Shades of Grey to shame. It even made the two works in question seem tame and harmless.
Mystique had indeed drugged Gavin, but not in the way one would expect. The drugs she used was a cocktail that did one thing: Drive the young man's libido so high that he became a sex zombie. And it went extraordinarily well; he had dominated Mystique, turned her into his plaything, he had fucked her in so many ways that they did positions that probably didn't even have a name. And he enjoyed it, being with an older woman; her assets were very nice to squeeze and she was satisfying to bang. And he didn't even give it a second thought before he finished and most definitely impregnated her, not that the woman minded of course, judging by how her face was very satisfied.
The instant Xavier withdrew from Gavin's mind, the boy sat still as a statue… Before he got up and roared in murderous rage as he reduced the chair he was in to splinters.
"HOW DARE SHE DO THAT TO ME!" He thundered murderously. Normally, Charles would reprimand him for his outbursts of anger, but he felt that this was extremely justified.
"Now Gavin please, I understand how you feel, and your anger is very much justified, but please do not do anything rash, or you could end up doing something you'll regret." Xavier told the boy.
Gavin took several deep breaths as he calmed down before he turned back to the telepath. "Don't worry…" He replied as he continued breathing deeply. "I'm not gonna kill her, if that's what you think. I refuse to end a life before it's begun. But…" Here, he looked down. "I'd like a couple of weeks off from school. This… Revelation makes me feel that going to school is a bad idea right now." He confessed.
"A sound judgement. Though, you speak against the possibility of ending Mystique's hypothetical pregnancy like you have experience in the matter." The man stated.
"I do… Me and Devin, our mom almost aborted us." The boy nodded. This revelation made Xavier actually look shocked. Gavin and Devin were almost aborted? "She was scared, she was supposed to be investigating our dad's ties to the Yakuza by getting close to him, and then found out that in the course of that, she not only started to love him, but was also pregnant with his children. You can imagine how damaging that could have been to her career."
"Yes I can." He nodded. "Though obviously she didn't go through with it." Xavier added as well.
"Damn right she didn't. Now she's got two badass sons in her life." Gavin said with a grin as he folded his arms.
"Now I see why you are so passionate about this." The telepath agreed. "Well then Gavin, we can discuss this more in the morning. For now though, how about you get some rest? It's been a very long day."
The boy nodded as he left the office, he was right, it had been a long day.
(A few hours later)
Gavin was sleeping soundly in his coffin when someone started knocking on it. Opening the lid and taking off his night mask he saw Scott kneeling there. "What?" The boy asked with a yawn.
"We need your help. Something's happened with Mr. McCoy and everyone's being called in to help." He explained.
Without even answering, Gavin leapt up and put on his costume and got his weapons. "Then let's go already." The pseudo vampire said.
Everyone started searching the streets of Bayville and they were trying to find Hank before the police. Luckily though, Gavin was able to track him easily by listening to his specific footsteps, a trick he learned from Bast.
'Note to self: Thank Bast for teaching me how to track people via their footsteps.' He thought, feeling thankful to said catwoman for teaching him things.
They were able to follow him to several places: Once to an old warehouse, once to a scrap hat and once to the docs, but it wasn't until he continued to head north that Evan, Kurt and the twins realized what he was doing.
"He's going to get his head together!" The four said in unison before pointing at each other. "Jinx!" They then decided to head the now ape-like mutant off at the old theatre, and sure enough, the giant blue fur ball was there. When they found him, Kurt called everyone and let them know where he was before turning his attention to the situation at hand.
"Mr. McCoy, we know you're in there. Come on, fight back!" Evan said encouragingly.
"Yeah! This is your body, not some creature's! It's your body, and yours alone!" Gavin said in agreement.
Their words seemed to fall on deaf ears as the beast their teacher had turned into lunged at them, prompting them to dodge. Devin quickly acted and turned his arms into a vice grip, holding him in place while Gavin shot him with stun lasers that made him easier to pin down, which Kurt and Evan handled. Right about this time the others arrived too.
"Any ideas?" Kurt asked.
"He really does like Shakespeare, anyone know any lines?" Evan asked. "I knew one but I can't remember it."
"Oh hell no! I'm not going through that again!" Gavin snapped.
"Will you stop being such a baby and help us think of something?!" Devin yelled as Hank started to struggle.
"Okay, okay! Get off my back!" Gavin retorted before he started thinking. "Evan, didn't Mr. McCoy ask you to memorize a passage in exchange for not saying anything about you skipping class?"
"Vait, he did vhat now?" Kurt asked.
"Not important now, Wagner!" Devin snapped.
"Yeah he did, but I can't remember it." Evan told them. Hank's struggling began to increase when he said that.
"Better start remembering because I don't know how long I can hold him!" Devin urged.
"Let me think, let me think…" The blonde said before he remembered the line just in the Knick of time. "Okay I think I got it: Show his eyes and grieve his heart. Come like shadows; so depart! We shall neither show night nor day, hang upon his penthouse lid, he shall live a man forbid. Eyes nights, nine times nine, with each other peak and pine!"
This seemed to calm Hank down some, which allowed Gavin to stun him some more and allowed Kurt to teleport Professor X to their position, allowing the telepath to try and reach out to him mentally. As the man tried to reach out to the man turned Beast, Evan continued to recite the line from Macbeth that Hank had given him to help keep him calm.
(Hours later)
-Xavier Institute-
Xavier, the Twins, Evan and Kurt were now with Hank as he looked at himself in the mirror and sighed in dismay.
"What am I going to do now?" He asked himself.
"Well, Professor Xavier could give you an image inducer like Kurt's." Devin suggested.
"And look like whom? Hank McCoy? He's a wanted fugitive now. No, I can't. I can still feel it, inside, a beast inside of me waiting to claw itself out." The ape-like mutant sighed.
"You could get some control seals like me." Gavin suggested.
"A useful tool, but I fear it would only prolong the inevitable. No, what I feared all these years has finally come to pass, my teaching days are over." Hank said solemnly.
"Not if we have anything to say about it." Gavin intervened.
"Gavin's right, Mr. McCoy, you could teach here." Kurt nodded.
"Yeah teach, you'd fit in great here, plus I bet Bast would love to have some extra help in the med bay anyway." Evan added.
"Yes. Your teaching days aren't over. What you need are students who know your secret and can trust them with it." Xavier nodded.
Hank seemed to like this idea. "I suppose it's my best option, isn't it?" He said, which was answered with the four boys giving him a comforting group hug, which the man returned rather happily.
The group then joined everyone else in the kitchen as the Professor then decided to introduce Hank to them all.
"Everyone, I'd like you to meet our newest faculty member." Xavier stated.
"It's nice to see you again, Hank." Bast said with a wave.
"Thank you Bast, but from this day on, I'm not just Hank or Mr. McCoy. Call me, Beast." Beast told them with a slight smile on his face.
(Elsewhere)
-Emma Frost's office-
Emma was now holding the copy of the paternity tests Mystique had taken, and had just read over them, and now her hands were shaking in anger as they suddenly turned to diamond.
"Mystique… You vile, intolerable, manipulative, god forsaken bitch!" She growled with enough anger to make great white sharks swim away from her in terror.
The results made it very clear. The father of the shapeshifter's latest spawn, was none other than her favorite patient and son of her dear friend Amanda: Gavin Shirakumo.
"There will be hell to pay, I promise you that!" The blonde growled before groaning. "How am I going to explain this to his mother?!"